45,000 Customers Upgraded to Veeam Availability Suite™ v8 in First 90
Days Illustrating Global Appetite for the Always-On Business

More than one third of customers have upgraded to the latest
iteration of Veeam’s award-winning availability solution, with upgrades
taking a ‘matter of minutes’; customers, prospects and partners have
downloaded at a rate of more than 1,200 per day

February 25, 2015 07:44 AM Eastern Standard Time

BAAR, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veeam® Software,
the innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for
the Modern Data Center™, today announced that
initial customer adoption of Veeam
Availability Suite TM v8 has exceeded all expectations.
Thirty thousand (30,000) organizations registered pre-launch interest in
the solution, illustrating the growing requirement for companies to
deliver the Always-On Business™, and within its first 90 days of release
more than 36 percent of existing customers (45,000) upgraded to Veeam
Availability Suite v8. In addition, wider interest in the solution has
been phenomenal, with customers, prospects and partners downloading at a
rate of more than 1,200 downloads per day.

When specifically asked about the upgrade experience to the new version:

Almost two thirds of organizations stated that the upgrade process
took a “matter of minutes”

Compared to upgrading with other software vendors, 94 percent said
that Veeam Availability Suite v8 set a new standard in simplicity

Furthermore, 91 percent of customers handled the upgrade process
internally with no help from an external consultant, thereby
illustrating its ease of use

Nearly three quarters of respondents indicated that the v8 release
exceeded their expectations or they were very satisfied since
completing the upgrade process

“Today’s users are more demanding than ever before, generating
ever-increasing amounts of data and they expect 24/7 access to
applications and data – this places an immense burden on IT to deliver,”
said Ratmir Timashev, CEO at Veeam. “Organizations that fail to deal
with this ‘availability gap’ [the gap between the requirements of the
Always-On Business and IT’s ability to effectively deliver] will falter
in the coming year. Veeam is committed to addressing the availability
gap through innovation, and Veeam Availability Suite v8 tackles this
issue head-on. Customer adoption has been strong and initial feedback in
the solution’s first-quarter on the market has been outstanding. We are
excited at what Veeam Availability Suite v8 can offer our users and it
seems that they [our customers] share our enthusiasm.”

According to recent
research, 82 percent of CIOs admit that they are unable to meet
their business’s need for immediate, always-on access to IT services.
This availability gap has immediate costs: application failure costs
enterprises more than $2 million a year in lost revenue, productivity,
opportunities and data irretrievably lost through backups failing to
recover. Veeam Availability Suite v8 bridges the availability gap by
providing customers a new kind of solution, an availability solution,
delivering recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15
minutes for ALL applications and data.

With more than 200 new features and enhancements, Veeam Availability
Suite v8 leverages the technologies of the modern data center:
virtualization, modern storage and cloud. It provides five key
capabilities enabling the Always-On Business, which are:

High-Speed Recovery: Rapid recovery of what you want, the way you want
it. For example, user can restore quickly and easily from Microsoft
Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, NetApp and HP storage snapshots and
more with Veeam
Explorers™

“Installing Veeam Availability Suite v8 was a breeze compared to our
previous solution,” said Mario Anger, Sr. Manager – Systems, at The
University of British Columbia. “The upgrade was seamless and we
conservatively predict that it [Veeam Availability Suite v8] will reduce
our backup window by at least 70 percent. One of the main reasons we
engaged with Veeam for this upgrade was its NetApp integration, and we
have high hopes for how the deployment will transform our operations.”

"Thanks to Veeam Availability Suite v8 and its storage integration
with NetApp, we finally managed to complete the backup infrastructure
refresh project we started more than a year ago,” stated Flavio Gatto,
IT Manager at Doimo Cityline S.r.l. “Leveraging NetApp storage snapshots
to make backups and restores with Veeam translates to real value for our
company. We now sleep well knowing our data is properly protected.”

“I have never used an availability application that I was this impressed
with... until now,” commented Samuel Sanders, Assistant Vice President –
Information Technology at Surrey Bank and Trust. “[Of Veeam
Availability Suite v8] The ease of use; the intuitiveness of the
interface, the feature set. It has all the features we need and nothing
we don't. In an industry with so many mediocre solutions, it is a breath
of fresh air. Finally, someone has created the perfect backup,
replication and disaster recovery suite.”

Veeam recognizes the new
challenges companies across the globe face in enabling the Always-On
Business™, a business that must operate 24/7/365. To address this, Veeam
has pioneered a new market of Availability for the Modern Data Center™
by helping organizations meet recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™)
of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data, through a
fundamentally new kind of solution that delivers high-speed recovery,
data loss avoidance, verified protection, leveraged data and complete
visibility. Veeam
Availability Suite™, which includes Veeam
Backup & Replication™, leverages virtualization, storage, and
cloud technologies that enable the modern data center to help
organizations save time, mitigate risks, and dramatically reduce capital
and operational costs.

Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has 29,000 ProPartners and more than
135,000 customers worldwide. Veeam’s global headquarters are located in
Baar, Switzerland, and the company has offices throughout the world. To
learn more, visit http://www.veeam.com.